A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, is among several Jan. 6 defendants who have been charged with new crimes since Trump’s sweeping act of clemency for Capitol rioters. On his first day back in the White House last year, Trump pardoned, commuted prison sentences or ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the attack.
Johnson was convicted last month of two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child and one count of electronically transmitting material harmful to a minor, according to prosecutors in Hernando County, Florida. County Circuit Judge Judge Stephen Toner handed down Johnson’s life sentence.
Sheriff’s deputies began investigating the child molestation allegations against Johnson in July 2025. One of his victims told investigators that the abuse started around April 2024, several months before Johnson was sentenced for his Capitol riot conviction.
Johnson told one of his victims that he expected to be compensated for being a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and would be putting the child in his will to inherit any leftover money, according a sheriff’s office report.
“This tactic was believed to be used to keep (the child) from exposing what Andrew had done,” the report said. Investigators found sexually explicit messages that Johnson exchanged with one of his victims on the Discord messaging app, according to Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Bill Gladson’s office.
“In the messages, Johnson attempted to have the victim download another application for a more private conversation and encouraged the victim to delete their messages afterwards,” Gladson’s office said in a news release.
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tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 161 pts · 166d
It's almost like every one of the J6ers were deplorables or something.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 166d
Didn't expect so many child touchers
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 166d
Considering who Trump is?
dazzlingclitgame@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 166d
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 166d
Yeah, these are just the people that have been caught.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 166d
I did
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 166d
4chan has hella pedophiles and CSAM on it. QAnon was always a bunch of fake moralizing
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Then you haven't been paying attention
dhork@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 166d
When MAGA sends their people, they're not sending their best....
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 51 pts · 166d
They are actually, and it's pretty fucking sad.
Triumph@fedia.io · 12 pts · 166d
They come in baskets.
criscodisco@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 166d
The GOP tradition.
bender223@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 166d
The Epstein party. 😜
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
It was then the Lincoln party until the Civil Rights era, which forever turned that party into one heavily conservative.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 166d
People still say the, "how can Republicans be racist, we're the party that ended slavery!" or, "Democrats are the racists, they're the ones who supported slavery!"
And I just send them the wiki article for Strom Thurmond
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 166d
Damn... it's always the ones you most suspect
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 166d
Yep. He'll be running for president next.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 166d
Why did they call him a “handyman” when the moment he did his heinous deeds, all his titles were overwritten with “child molester”?
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 166d
Because job title in America is the most important thing about someone
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 166d
It's how much money you have. You can often figure it out from their title.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 166d
The only thing people want to talk about at social gatherings is work. When meeting new people, I ask "what are your hobbies" or "what do you like to do" and either they misunderstand and talk about their job or talk briefly about other things and then immediately shift to work.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
Find new people.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 166d
Personally, I am guessing that the topic of work is considered a safe subject of one's existence. Most folks probably don't relate to each other, considering the breadth of hobbies and interests people have. I like Fantasy Maiden Wars, prefer UC Gundam without Newtype woo, and enjoy reading hentai manga. Methinks most people would be irritated, disinterested, or horrified by my existence.
We don't live in a world of local isolation. We can absorb cultures and ideas far from home, by choice, instead of being dyed by the people who live nearby. This is good and bad: we have the freedom to become our truer selves, but that also means we aren't forced to become incidental friends with people in meatspace.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 166d
Not a democrat, not a member of the LGBTQ committee, not an immigrant, not a trans athlete, not a black person, just good ol fashioned classic republican.
victorz@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 166d
Molesting kids? Sounds like another pardon is about to drop for him! Because the government condones that shit 🥰
Brickhead92@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
This man need to be in charge of a government department!
ameancow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
In Florida - I can see DeSatanist pardoning him at the behest of the orange turd.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Polis - supposedly a Democratic governor in a blue state - is thinking about releasing Tina Peters, which some outlets have taken to calling an "election denier", instead of someone that was trying to steal an election and who assaulted a police officer.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Apparently Jared here in Colorado is considering releasing that bitch Tina Peter, who was trying to steal an election and who assaulted a police officer. And this is a blue state, so....that pressure/influence must work.
She has not shown any remorse at all, and considers herself some kind of hero for the cause. I seriously saw a "free Tina Peters" hanging up on a building here in Colorado, so people like that would consider their feelings validated by such a move.
somtwo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 166d
GOP: Group Of Pedophiles
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 166d
pubquiz@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 166d
frongt@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 166d
He is not being offered a pardon for this.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 166d
That's just a question of money.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 166d
that is why the voters love trump, because they themselves are Sa-ERS, or support it.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 166d
The GOP are pedos all the way down.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 166d
Can someone tell me why the American Right made such a big deal about Biden "sniffing" and yet turn a blind eye to all this from the GOP?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 166d
Oh, simple. It's never about the issue, it's about the opposition.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. -Frank Wilhoit
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
The Biden pedo stuff was pure bullshit. Just like Pizzagate. This, however, is real. Like, actual convictions real. They were projecting all along.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Hyperpartisanization, people seek echo chambers. So news targets those people and the donors and advertisers align to maximize profits.
If you look at the left leaning news they are putting out information that makes Trump seem senile or sick, just as Fox News did to Biden.
We are all being propagandized for money, and what's the solution, anonymous ad networks and only passive etf can own news stations? I really have no idea.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 166d
That’s on brand
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 166d
Not trying to be disrespectful towards any community. But I really feel compelled by the holy spirit RN! I have a deep and burning desire to ask this one question. Was he by chance a drag queen?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 166d
Also, FFS, the MSM needs to stop referring to these terrorists as "rioters".
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 166d
Vlyn@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 166d
You mean a government position? I can't even add an /s here, the guy could actually end up the next secretary of defense or whatever.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
AKSHUALLY, it is Secretary of War now. /j
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com · 9 pts · 166d
Being a pedo is a pre-requirement for this guys?
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 9 pts · 166d
MAGA gonna fuck kids one way or the other
bender223@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 166d
their slogan should be "fuck them kids!"
zenitsu@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 166d
He qualifies for a position in the administration now
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 166d
Hm. Didn't realize that was even frowned upon in Florida.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 166d
Only the best people.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d
Hope that was a state conviction...
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
Cases like this are what Democrats need to have on the very tip of their tongue when monsters like Noem and Blondi and MTG start up with their bullshit narratives where they have one case of an immigrant doing something awful.
Democrats need to counter with something like: "well, while we are talking about crime, why did your boss pardon a PEDOPHILE, (Pam/Kristi)? That's what we should really be talking about."
PEDOnald released these pedophiles. Ask them WHY. Every single time they imply that immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than citizens in an effort to distract from things like releasing the Donald-Epstein files.
bender223@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 166d
It takes one to know one. 🤣
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
They let you do that when you're rich and famous!
What do you mean I'm not rich and famous? Hey! Let me go!
JenitalJouster@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 166d
there has to be something going on like the moment you vote red do you just become a pedo? this is what the millionth time atp??
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 166d
Is this my two minutes hate?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 166d
O.T.B.
Only
The
Best
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 166d
Now THIS is a drag queen, yes?
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 166d
Why is this person only being given a life sentence, instead of death? I can't imagine a rapist being someone we ever want as a member of society.
bobzer@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 166d
The list goes on and on
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 166d
Also, if criminals know they will be killed when caught, they have a decent incentive to not get caught alive.
uienia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d
And much more of an incentive to kill their victims as well.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
Crap, that's actually a good argument against the death penalty for corrupt politicians and the filthy rich as well.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
From my understanding, the situation is statutory rape. An 18 year old senior with a freshman girlfriend is a statutory rapist. A life sentence is pretty stiff already.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Now he's cooked, bastard should never drop this. Prisoners hates peds.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
In Florida? You’d think he’d be king there.
Must not be rich enough.